200 Students of South Jakarta's PTIQ University Test Positive for COVID-19
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Ricky Mohammad Nugraha
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Markus Wisnu Murti
Senin, 5 Oktober 2020 20:56 WIB
COVID-19 swab test illustration. REUTERS
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The capital city’s Health Agency’s head of prevention and disease control, Dwi Oktavia, said that the lack of proper health protocols in South Jakarta’s Quranic Higher Education Institute (PTIQ) had caused the large number of confirmed COVID-19 infections among its students.
“Their interactions are believed to have violated health protocols and were left unsupervised,” said Oktavia on Monday, October 5. “Half of the [university students] were exposed.”
She said there were at least 200 students of the university that tested positive for COVID-19 after the government traced a student that was exposed to the virus. This means nearly half of the university students have been exposed to the virus since PTIQ’s total students amount to 400.
The Jakarta Health Agency explained that the rapid COVID-19 infections were due to the fact that the initial carrier was asymptomatic (OTG), and that most of them stayed together in a dormitory. The students who have been confirmed positive were transported to North Jakarta’s Wisma Atlet Kemayoran Emergency Hospital.
